The Reverend Professor '''Andrew Linzey''', PhD, DD, is an Anglican Priest, a theologian, a writer, and is internationally known as an authority on Christianity and animals. He is a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University_of_Oxford, and holds the world’s first academic post in Ethics, Theology and Animal Welfare — the Bede Jarret Senior Research Fellowship at Blackfriars Hall, University_of_Oxford. From 1987 to 1992, he was Director of Studies of the Centre for the Study of Theology in the University_of_Essex, England, and from 1992 to 1996, he was Special Professor in Theology at the University_of_Nottingham, England. In 1998, he was Visiting Professor at the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine at the Hebrew_University of Jerusalem. He is currently Honorary Professor at the University_of_Birmingham, England, and Special Professor at Saint_Xavier_University, Chicago. He has written more than 180 articles, and authored or edited twenty books on Theology and Ethics. He has lectured and broadcast extensively in Europe and the United States. His ''Animal Theology'' has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Japanese. In 1990, he was awarded the Peaceable Kingdom Medal for outstanding work in the field of theology and animals. In June 2001, he was awarded a DD (Doctor of Divinity) degree by George_Carey, Archbishop_of_Canterbury, in recognition of his “unique and massive pioneering work in the area of the theology of creation with particular reference to the rights and welfare of God’s sentient creatures”. This is the highest award that the Archbishop can bestow on a theologian and the first time it has been awarded for work involving animals. ==See also== *Animal_rights *Animal_welfare ==Works== *co editor ''Gays and the Future of Anglicanism: Responses to the Windsor Report'' O Books, 2005, ISBN 190504738X *editor of ''The Animal World Encyclopaedia'' Kingsley Media, 2005 *co-edited with Paul Barry Clarke ''Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology'' Columbia University Press, 2005, ISBN 0231134207 *Linzey, Andrew ''Animal Gospel: Christian Faith as If Animals Mattered'' (London: Hodder and Stougton, and Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1999 and 2000) *Linzey, Andrew ''Animal Rites: Liturgies of Animal Care'' (London: SCM Press and Cleveland: Ohio: The Pilgrim Press, 1999 and 2001) *Linzey, Andrew ''Animal Gospel: The Christian Defense of Animals'' Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1998, ISBN 0340621508 *co-edited with Dorothy Yamamoto ''Animals on the Agenda: Questions about Animals for Theology and Ethics'' (London: SCM Press and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998 and 1999) *co-authored with Dan Cohn-Sherbok ''After Noah: Animals and the Liberation of Theology'' (London: Mowbray, now Continuum, 1997) *Linzey, Andrew ''Animal Theology'' University of Illinois Press, 1995, ISBN 0252021703 *co-editor ''Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society'' Routledge, 1995 *Linzey, Andrew ''Animal Theology'' (London: SCM Press and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994 and 1996) *co-edited with Peter Wexler ''Fundamentalism and Tolerance (Canterbury Papers)'' Bellew Publishing, 1991, ISBN 0947792740 *edited with P.A.B. Clarke ''Political Theory and Animal Rights'' (London: Pluto Press, 1990) *edited with Tom Regan ''Animals and Christianity: A Book of Readings'' (London: SPCK and New York: Crossroad, 1989 and 1990) *Linzey, Andrew ''Christianity and the Rights of Animals'' (London: SPCK and New York: Crossroad, 1987 and 1989) *Linzey, Andrew ''Animal Rights: A Christian Perspective'' (London: SCM Press, 1976) Linzey Linzey Linzey, Andrew